Christmas is NOT under attack.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

~4:14pm~ EST
CHRISTMAS IS NOT THE TARGET: Much has been written and discussed in talk radio and on the internet this holiday season as to why certain decisions are being made when it comes to certain symbols of Christmas. I have seen or heard stories along these lines on all of the following topics just in the past 24 hours...

1. TARGET vs. Salvation Army
2. Macys banning "Merry Christmas"
3. Bloomingdales banning "Merry Christmas"
4. The Denver Parade of Lights banning "Christmas" floats
5. Maplewood Schools in New Jersey banning all Christmas and Hannukah music from its Winter Concert.
6. Bloomberg proclaiming the NYC no longer a Christmas tree but a holiday tree.
7. Time and Newsweek Magazines brand new issues try to dispel the "myth" of Christmas.

And the list could get much longer...

The problem is this - none of these are truly aiming at doing away with Christmas.

Let's face it - no one wants to have to go to work those days, give up the time off, not exchange presents, or drink the special Starbucks "Peppermint Mocha" that seem to all accompany the holiday!

These efforts instead are focused to attempt something much bigger in scope - eliminate all symbols of faith in the public life.

Why?

Because they threaten the possibility of the "progressive/radical/liberal" utopia that the left desires to see take hold in America.

Leftists believe that Western Europe is the most "advanced" culture on the planet. Canada has adopted most of Western Europe's characteristics and thusly also looks a lot like European countries where the majority of the population is considered little more than containers of cells as opposed to moral, spiritual, and responsible beings.

In Canada it has gotten bad.

The rates at which Candians have abandoned "any form" of faith has grown by over 16% since 1971. And since 1980 a full 39% of Canadians say that faith has no importance for them at all.

But at the same time the decline in faith observance and participation has fallen to record lows, the "progressive" elites have pushed their agenda forward faster and harder.

The results of which are not impressive.

Welfare recipients at 2x the percentage of Americans per capita.
A functionally non-existent military.
Record levels of legalized drug use.
Abortion ON DEMAND through ALL 9 MONTHS of pregnancy.
Majority of Canadians now favor same sex marriage.
And most sickening of all...the age of consent in Canada is now 14 years of age.

So in Canada at age 14 a young girl can tell her dad to take a flying leap - because she is going to go live with her 27 year old boyfriend - and the parent is powerless to stop her.

In Canada a 45 year old homosexual male can engage in sex with a 14 year old - and as long as he had consent - suffer no criminal consequences for doing so.

Educational and Societal Secular elites want America to aspire to this lofty position of "enlightenment".

Canada did it in the vaccum of declining faith or religious interest.

Progressives in America, especially smarting from the recent election where all 11 state intiatives on marriage went against them, have awakened and realized that Faith is the enemy. The holidays (which originally meant "holy" "days") and the symbols that are embraced are public expressions of faith and therefore must be snuffed out.

And because of this - it is more vital than ever for every "Season's Greetings" to be met with a kind "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hannukah". For to not do so - is to give in to the incrementalism that progressives plan to us to implement their "great society".